Garment-supporter.



UNfrED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH I-I. PILKINGTON, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO CHRISTINA J. IIIGLEY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GRMENT-SUPPORTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 703,152, dated J' une 24, 1902.

Application filed November 21, 1901. Serial No. 83,074. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH H. PILKINGTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Vaterbury, county of New Haven, State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Supporters, of which the following is a full, clear, and eX- act description.

My invention relates to garment-supporters, and particularly to a metal fastener therefor.

This device performs the function of connection between two pieces of fabric or webbing.

. The device will be termed a buckle, al-

though it is obvious that it is not a buckle in the sense that there is a hinged partcarrying teeth or other movable clamp by which the buckle may be opened and closed.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive, and effective means to be permanently secured-to one piece of webbing and to which another piece of webbing may be attached.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 illustrates a front elevation of a hose-supporter of common form provided with my iinproved buckle. Fig. 2 is a relatively enlarged sectional view of the buckle and that portion of the hose supported adjacent thereto. Fig. 3 isa front elevation of the buckle detached.

The main body of the buckle comprises two substantially parallel bars A A', connected by side bars B B. The side bars are bent inwardly to form bearing-shoulders for a transverse locking-plate D, having therein an opening, preferably of hour-glass shape. Adjacent the narrower portion of said opening are two tongues E E, forming gripping-lips, between which the end of a piece of tape or webbing F is held in the manner shown in Fig. 2, in which it will be observed that the end of the webbing F is passed into said opening and gripped between the two lips E E. The webbing is then continued up and around the upper edge of the plate D, then down and around the lower edge of said plate D, then up and under the upperbar A. The lower portion G of the garment-supporter carrying the button-and-loopv fastener (shown in Fig. l) may be secured to the lower bar A in any suitable mannen-for example, by simply lapping the webbing over and sewing it in place by a row of stitches. (Indicated by dotted lines.)

It will be noticed that the opening in plate D is so formed as to permit one corner of the end of the elastic tape or fabric to be readily introduced and then drawn across into position. The lipsE are then adapted to held the end in place without injury thereto.

/Vhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A garment-supporter comprising a frame having parallel bars connected at opposite ends by side bars, a stationary metal plate secured to said side bars the said plate having an opening therein the said opening having a substantial contraction near the center thereof but with the edges spaced apart, and a garment-supporter tape secured to the lower of said parallel bars anda tape passing through the space between the upper of said parallel bars and the stationary plate and around said stationary plate the end of said tape being held in position between the contracted edges of the opening in said plate, substantially as described.

Signed at Waterbury, Connecticut, this 19th day of NovembenlQOl.`

JOSEPH PILKINGTON.

Witnesses:

CLARA L. DODGE, GEORGE Finir. 

